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The Leader in Social Media. Start your project. Makes crowdsourcing simple. Crowdsourcing specific microtasks. Since the first-ever Mechanical Turk meetup a year ago, there has been an explosion in crowdsourcing services and a well-attended conference in San Francisco.

Crowdsourcing specific microtasks

I remain enthusiastic about crowdsourcing, but the number of companies has me worried about quality of work. Fortunately specialization is already occurring, so for particular tasks there are companies out there ready to provide high-quality service. One company that recently caught my eye is Helsinki (and SF) based Microtask. Founded by Computer Graphics (CG) and Computer Vision (CV) veterans, Microtask has chosen to focus in a few areas where CG and CV are relevant. Aside from speech transcription, they currently provide form-processing (digitizing hand-written forms) and archive digitization services, and have plans to expand into image categorization and video indexing in the near future.

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Crowdsourcing's Champions (GE, OMC, SNE, WEN)

Even if you have never heard of it, you have probably purchased a product that was developed using crowdsourcing or have been directly involved yourself. Crowdsourcing is the outsourcing of idea generation or tasks that would normally be tackled by employed workers or contractors for a particular company. The task or idea is outsourced to the masses via the Internet or social media technology. Crowdsourcing can be more than just a task or an idea. In general, if it brings benefit by bringing together many people for a common cause, there has been some successful crowdsourcing. See, crowdsourcing is fun and it can be very profitable and cost favorable for many companies. General Electric (NYSE: GE ) General Electric's Ecomagination Challenge is using crowdsourcing to create eco-friendly business ideas.